€400 - €800
Star Lot: A very large mixed media watercolour painting on paper by British artist Trevor Halliday (b. 1939), Royal Academy London. Titled 'Woodland' it shows a New Forest landscape with energetic mark making and great movement in the trees and water. Signed bottom left and housed in a heavy black frame with glass.
MM 106cm x 80cm in frame
Halliday is a painter and teacher, born in Birmingham, where he studied at the College of Arts and Crafts, 1954–60, then Royal Academy Schools, 1960–3. He held a number of fine art teaching posts and until 1989 was head of the fine art school at Birmingham Polytechnic. Among his group show appearances were Objects and Documents, Arts Council, 1971–2; Recent British Painting, at Hayward Gallery, 1974; Twenty One for Twenty One, at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and tour, 1985; and John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, 1991–2. He had a solo retrospective at Ikon Gallery, 1975. Lived in Grimsby, South Humberside.
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